Sounds wonderful, much needed and no doubt a wonderful cause, so we all should be grateful for the benevolence of our Washington, D.C., benefactors. Or should we?

According to the Tax Foundation, Nevada receives back in benefits only about 65 percent of the amount the federal government collects from our state's taxpayers. It puzzles me that we don't finally wake up and insist that our members of Congress get the federal government out of the business of making us grovel for federal money to do what we can do just as well or better at less expense if left on our own.

That applies to job training, education, health care, housing and the host of other areas best identified as needing assistance and administered at our state and local levels.

Maybe the first place to start to get our national financial house in order is to get the Washington, D.C. politicians and bureaucrats out of trying to run our daily lives.

Raymond Kechely, Carson City

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We may be better off without fed funds

According to 'Labor Department gives $8.78 million to Northern Nevada colleges,' [News, Sept. 18] the U.S.

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